Proactively seeking out opportunities to realise exhibitions and projects is an important strategy in the arts. Adam Smythe, Curator at the Bluecoat in Liverpool, gives some advice on the best methods of approaching galleries with exhibition proposals for your own work or for curatorial projects.
We’ve had some fortuitous timing with this project, most notably that our decision to work with risograph aligned with The Old Waterworks expansion of their printmaking facilities to include – a risograph! Although I’m no longer a studio holder there, […]
For this follow up to her Approaching galleries guide, Jennie Syson asked artists, arts managers, curators and gallery directors to share their top tips, and dos and don’ts advice.
Jennie Syson offers some advice on approaching galleries, through setting out the different research routes and methods you might use.
The Bethlem Gallery in Bromley provides a professional platform for artists who have experienced mental health difficulties. Alistair Gentry speaks to the gallery’s director Beth Elliot about the organisation and how it fosters a supportive artist-focussed environment.
We take a look back at some of the highlights from the recent a-n Assembly, which explored the idea of ‘London’s edge’ and how, drawn by opportunity and affordability, artists are living and working in new parts of the city.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions in Glasgow, London, Rochester and Canterbury – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
Joining a board can provide artists with a voice in the decision-making room and a way to steer the arts agenda. Nicola Naismith explores what’s involved, and hears from artists and their fellow board members about the important contribution artists can make and why being a trustee matters.
Writing a manifesto was one of Dan Thompson’s first acts as an artist and he has since written several more including one about using empty shops, and The Paying Artists Manifesto for Artist-Led Work that showed how artists working with their own ecology, economy and excitement ‘make the world around them better’. He explores the history of artists’ manifestos and shares advice and tips on how to write your own.
In 2017, New Contemporaries, an annual exhibition of emerging artists from UK art schools, opened up its application to include artists from alternative learning programmes. Director Kirsty Ogg discusses this decision, the changing climate for emerging artists in the UK, and what artists really need to develop and challenge their practice. Interview by Michaela Nettell.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions in London, Washington, Glasgow and Edinburgh – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
Manchester’s artist-focused art fair returns this weekend and, alongside an emphasis on artist collectives, organisers say that for the first time in the fair’s history the majority of the galleries and collectives taking part are led by women. We preview the fair and take a look at some of the other artist-led events taking place around Manchester this weekend.
As the marquees go up in the park, we take a look at some of the fairs, events and curated projects taking place this week in London and beyond, including a new Art on the Underground commission by Denzil Forrester, House of Voltaire’s latest pop-up space and the second iteration of the Coventry Biennial.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions in Glasgow, Salisbury, Edinburgh and London – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
A selection of recommended shows including sculptural works that reflect how we experience landscape in London, an exploration of the culture of bureaucracy in Walsall, and in Cardiff a group show of artists who embrace failure and humour.
Our 2019 programme of one-day artist-led events continues with Assembly Thamesmead addressing how artists, drawn by opportunity and affordability, are living and working in new parts of the city, while Assembly Stoke-on-Trent throws into focus the idea of the artist as activist, activator and change maker.
Curated by artist-led space TACO!, Assembly Thamesmead addressed issues around agency, placemaking and collective organisation in order to open up debate about artist-led responses to cultural inequality, public space, housing and community production. London’s position as a global centre for […]
This year’s city-wide celebration of contemporary ceramic art features an expanded programme of exhibitions and increased prize money for its ‘Award’ competition for new and innovative work.
Dartmoor-based artists Tabatha Andrews and Tim Bolton will collaborate with former Jaeger seamstresses for their sculptural project Make It Up, which draws on the port city’s textile and naval history.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in London, Norfolk, Sussex and Venice – all taken from our busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
Creative Scotland is running a £400,000 pilot programme to support five of Scotland’s artist-led spaces to explore the best ways to sustain artist-run and collectively organised activity. Glasgow-based artist and writer Jessica Ramm considers the questions that will be asked.
Artist and co-director of Salford-based organisation Paradise Works part of cohort to receive bespoke professional development opportunity that seeks to develop leaders from across a wide range of cultural disciplines and sectors.
